Contents
Introduction
Amber and the Ancient World
Jewelry: Never Just Jewelry
Amber Magic?
What Is Amber?
Where Is Amber Found?
The Properties of Amber
Ancient Names for Amber
Color and Other Optical Characteristics: Ancient Perception and Reception
Ancient Literary Sources on the Origins of Amber
Amber and Forgery
The Ancient Transport of Amber
Literary Sources on the Use of Amber
Amber Medicine, Amber Amulets
The Bronze Age
Early Iron Age and the Orientalizing Period
The Archaic and Afterward
The Working of Amber: Ancient Evidence and Modern Analysis
The Production of Ancient Figured Amber Objects
Catalogue
Orientalizing Group
1. Pendant: Female Holding a Child (Kourotrophos)
2. Pendant: Female Holding a Child (Kourotrophos) with Bird
3. Pendant: Addorsed Females
4. Pendant: Divinity Holding Hares
5. Pendant: Lion with Swan
6. Pendant: Paired Lions
Ship with Figures
7. Pendant: Ship with Figures
Korai
8. Pendant: Standing Female Figure (Kore)
9. Pendant: Head Fragment from a Standing Female Figure (Kore)
Human Heads
10. Pendant: Head of a Female Divinity or Sphinx
11. Pendant: Head of a Female Divinity or Sphinx
12. Pendant: Satyr Head in Profile
13. Pendant: Satyr Head
14. Pendant: Female Head in Profile
15. Pendant: Winged Female Head in Profile
16. Pendant: Winged Female Head
17. Pendant: Female Head in Profile
18. Pendant: Female Head
19. Pendant: Female Head
20. Pendant: Female Head in Profile
21. Pendant: Female Head
22. Pendant: Female Head
23. Pendant: Winged Female Head
24. Pendant: Female Head
25. Pendant: Female Head in Profile
26. Pendant: Female Head
Animals
27. Roundel: Animal
28. Plaque: Addorsed Sphinxes
29. Pendant: Hippocamp
30. Pendant: Cowrie Shell / Hare
31. Pendant: Lion
32. Pendant: Female Animal (Lioness?)
Lions’ Heads
33. Pendant: Lion’s Head
34. Spout or Finial: Lion’s Head
35. Pendant: Lion’s Head
36. Pendant: Lion’s Head
Boars
37. Pendant: Foreparts of a Recumbent Boar
38. Plaque: Addorsed Lions’ Heads with Boar in Relief
Rams’ Heads
39. Pendant: Ram’s Head
40. Pendant: Ram’s Head
41. Pendant: Ram’s Head
42. Pendant: Ram’s Head
43. Pendant: Ram’s Head
44. Pendant: Ram’s Head
45. Pendant: Ram’s Head
46. Pendant: Ram’s Head
47. Pendant: Ram’s Head
48. Pendant: Ram’s Head
49. Pendant: Ram’s Head
50. Pendant: Ram’s Head
51. Pendant: Ram’s Head
52. Finial(?): Ram’s Head
53. Spout or Finial: Ram’s Head
Other Animal Heads
54. Pendant: Bovine Head
55. Pendant: Horse’s Head in Profile
56. Pendant: Asinine Head in Profile
Forgery
57. Statuette: Seated Divinity
Technical Essay: Analysis of Selected Ambers from the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
About the Authors